A new piece for comment.
AN EGRET
An egret stomps
flat footed through the shallows
pauses in a proud pencil shape
If you did not know better
you would suspect
it aped the human state
and was not engaged in something
natural
Harried by gulls he retaliates
for sand and water trod harbours food
The egret flies and plods other ground
upriver - a pause, a dash, a dip of beak
underwater
While the gulls still fuss and harry
the egret nods in a forward waddle
to further food
bw
James
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